Using SafeDNS

DNS-layer filtering

DNS filtering is the most comprehensive web filtering technique. It blocks unwanted sites altogether before users access them. DNS filtering blocks both HTTP and HTTPS sites. DNS filtering is indispensable for blocking malicious sites, as over 90% of malware uses DNS to carry out malicious campaigns.

Category-based filtering

SafeDNS users decide which categories of content to block or allow on their network. We provide 61 SafeDNS categories to choose from.

High precision filtering

To deliver users an exceptionally accurate web filtering, the company uses its own web categorization database with 109M sites, distributed in 5 dozen content categories. With the database information we analyze each DNS query from SafeDNS-protected devices to define what content categories the requested site belongs to. The queries for sites from user allowed categories are successfully resolved into IP addresses of the requested sites. Otherwise, SafeDNS shows users a service block page – instead of the requested site from user blocked categories.

Reliably clean & safe internet

With the SafeDNS web filtering service on, you are going to have no worries as to what content your staff, visitors and worshipers access online. If you work with families, SafeDNS is just what you need to have a child-friendly WiFi for the young web surfers. Choose meticulously which content categories to block or allow from the 61 categories SafeDNS provides.

Malware & phishing-free network

Use SafeDNS to prevent your employees and visitors from accessing malicious, phishing and cryptomining sites which can infect your entire network with malware, severely damage user devices, and steal valuable info. To protect your WiFi users against these cyber threats, filter out all security-related categories of content in the SafeDNS service management panel.

Fast & easy deployment

Start filtering the internet on your network in minutes. There’s no need for any additional hardware to buy and software to install. Just redirect DNS queries of your network users to SafeDNS filtering servers to be resolved according to your own filtering rules.

Centralized filtering management

Manage your filtering settings and access filtering service stats for any and all of your locations and networks from the centralized Service Dashboard. Use it to create filtering policies, manage and fine tune the filtering settings as you see fit.

No complaints of inappropriate use of your WiFi

When you block dangerous, gross, and unwanted content with SafeDNS, you will keep your visitors and staff happy and get no complaints that inappropriate sites are available on your WiFi.

WiFi usage stats

Check detailed filtering stats and reports to keep an eye on the online activity on your WiFi. If the stats shows there are any breaches of the WiFi use policy, you can immediately tweak the filtering settings for any of your filtering profiles.

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Multi-policy filtering

You can filter the internet differently for visitors, congregation members and employees at any level. For a multi-layer web access management, create as many filtering policies within your organization as you need. On all the policies block the content you do not want your network users to see – adult, explicit, vulgar, and irrelevant sites.

Protection against pornographic & abuse content

Ensure your WiFi users never access pornography, child sexual abuse images and videos – block the 3 dedicated filtering categories SafeDNS provides. One of them is for blocking pornography. The other categories contain the similar illegal content from the IWF Child Abuse Image Content List, which SafeDNS receives as Internet Watch Foundation Member, and from a list compiled by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, as part of its Project Arachnid.

Safe mode for Google, Bing & YouTube

Enable SafeSearch Mode for Google and Bing and Restricted Mode for YouTube out of your personal Service Dashboard. In these modes gross and explicit content is blocked from the search results and videos, marked as inappropriate for kids by YouTubers, are filtered out.

Ad blocking

Get rid of annoying distractions and further improve your online safety, filter out web ads. They are a nuisance and pose additional threat as bad actors use the ads for malware propagation.

SafeDNS in numbers

109

million

sites in the database

61

categories

of content, categorized by subject

65

million

cyber threats blocked daily

Easy implementation

The SafeDNS 100% cloud service supports any device and IP, third-party DNS services and can be configured on APs, WiFi routers (other WiFi network equipment), firewalls, and servers.

Network & individual users’ protection

You choose whether to filter both your visitors and employees or just some staff members, individually or groups of them.

Filtering customization

Intelligent white- or blacklisting and fully customizable service block pages will all be available to you. In the white and black lists you can add sites to be excluded from any filtering rules. Personalize the service block pages to let your the staff, visitors, church attendees know why this or that site is blocked. To tailor the pages to any audience’s needs, you can create an individual block page per each filtering policy.

Fast DNS resolving

The company’s filtering servers, located all over the world, are connected by BGP Anycast protocol in a failover network. It is designed to process queries from millions of users in a 24/7 mode, so that you can get the filtering service without interruptions. That’s why we guarantee users no latency in resolving their DNS queries. SafeDNS is among the top of the world's fastest DNS filtering services, on par with the biggest players in the DNS filtering market and the global internet giant.

Reputation & money saver

You can avoid WiFi system recovery and uphold your precious reputation by filtering out dangerous and inappropriate web content. You’ve got enough on your plate, not to waste time for malware infection remediation and reputation recovery.

Test lab certification & award

Since 2015 the SafeDNS award-winning filtering service has annually been tested and certified by AV-Comparatives, a world-known test lab. For the 4 years straight SafeDNS has got the lab’s Approved Parental Control Product award. In the 2018 tests, SafeDNS blocked near-perfect 98,3% of requests for adult content. For all the 4 years of tests SafeDNS has had no false positives.